What is the difference between chimerical and phoenix?
chimerical | phoenix |
Of or pertaining to a chimera.
Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
* 1877 ,
Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
(figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.
(mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.
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As a adjective chimerical
is of or pertaining to a chimera.As a noun phoenix is
(mythology) a mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun it then arises anew from the ashes.chimerical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- "Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical , are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
- a chimerical goal
Derived terms
* chimericallyphoenix
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(wikipedia phoenix)Alternative forms
* phenix, , pheonixNoun
- Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.